Grayling813 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 4:33 pm
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That area of St. Louis is IN THE CITY, not the suburbs. Ignore the screeching loon....she has systemic ignorance.
Well...no. She knows what she's talking about. Suburbs have generally considered outlying areas, but the key feature of suburbs are that they are residential areas largely consisting of single family homes. They are away from the urban parts of the city because land is...or was... cheaper farther out, but also they are farther away from the urban ills of overcrowding, no yards, city noise and all the rest of the "urban scene."
Lefties hate this. You are selfish for wanting this, and you and your family are evil for not sacrificing you wants, needs, security for the communal pleasure of being stacked on top of each other, with only enough (maybe) room to have a bed and maybe a kitchen. And therefore you don't need any cars, few if any pets, you don't need to travel except by mass transit, etc, and the fact that there's a wino peeing in the doorway to your apartment building is just a minor fly in the ointment etc.
Portland Place is in the city of St Louis, but it not "urban." It is a very rich single family home residential area with multi-room houses, large lots, lots of trees, expensive cars, probably no businesses (and if there are any, I'll bet they are restaurants) -- everything a good commie hates (for other people to have).
The BLM/Antifa/Commies have announced that they are taking protests to the suburbs, and you now read daily of their mobs roaming through single family residential areas threatening the residents. The mob that trespassed McCloskeys were on their way to the mayor's house, and they trespassed purposefully because Portland Place is a rich version of the suburbs they love to hate.
Governor Newsom just signed an Exec Order for California banning the sale of gas-powered vehicles by ... 2035 I think. Anyway, in the middle of the article is this gem:
Others applauded the governor's move, but they did not think the ban was a panacea.
"We still need to reduce vehicle miles traveled, which stems from our abject failure to build sufficiently dense housing in our urban core near jobs and transit and leads to sprawl that contributes to climate change impacts regardless of fuel consumption," the Bay Area Council tweeted.
But you can bet the upper apparatchiks will need special single family dachas to compensate for all that stress of governing for the good of the masses, tho.
https://www.foxla.com/news/california-g ... and-trucks
Commies love herding people into groups with lots of (forced) commonality, it makes them easier to control. Commies hate small business, small towns, suburbs, individual housing, everything that provides individual freedom. They claim to hate corporations, but they much prefer them to small businesss because they are both more powerful and easier to control, so they will tolerate a fascist phase where corporations are allowed to exist as long as they toe the party line (like in Nazi Germany), but ultimately they will become part of the State/Party --- unless everything falls apart first.
